Yearling pictures - Can I have your opinion??

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Yearling pictures - Can I have your opinion??

Postby vallygirl927 » Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:02 pm

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to post my yearlings pictures and possbily get some opinions regarding his size and conformation. He is 18 months this October and I bred him to race, so I'm hoping that can be the case in a year or two. He appears straight in his pasterns....do you others agree? Would anyone say it's worth putting him into training as a racehorse?? Can he still be a decent racehorse with this as a conformation fault?? Even claiming ranks would be ok with me! I would appreciate everyone's honest opinion....Thanks!!

Also, you can check out his pedigree...it's not anything magnificent.....the real pedigree starts one generation back. His sire Temescal Ridge is half brother to Kentucky sire Belong to Me. Didn't race due to soundness issues, but they paid a pretty penny for him...$875,000 for him at the Keenland Kentucky sale. This is my mares first foal...but her sire won over $900,000 on the track. http://www.pedigreequery.com/satisfy+my+soul


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Postby zinn21 » Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:20 am

It's always difficult to judge a horse by pictures because of the various angles that might distort. That said in general he looks ok to me. He looks a bit upright but I've seen worse.

Physically he looks like he was raised in a small paddock. How was he raised? Did he run with a herd?

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Postby karenkarenn » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:31 pm

Didnt we have a thread like this going before?
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